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Joel T.9
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10 years ago

FileMetadata checksum

Is there something better than file size to use as a checksum? Maybe Sha1 or MD5? I didn't see one on the FileMetadata class. It appears "Rev" changes even when the contents haven't changed (ie. o...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Hi Brian, I just replied on the new thread you started, but in short, yes, that's correct, the Dropbox API doesn't currently offer file hashes, so you'd need to download it to check the contents.

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